Category Archives: William Shakespeare

Greenblatt on Shakespeare and Absolutism

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

What is striking is that his work, alert to every human fantasy and longing, is allergic to the absolutist strain so prevalent in his world, from the metaphysical to the mundane. His kings repeatedly discover the constraints within which they … Continue reading →

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When Greenblatt met Clinton

Posted on March 20, 2012 by stuartelden

Good story in Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom (pp. 74-75). Greenblatt says how he was invited to the the White House for a poetry evening, and President Clinton gave a speech which mentioned Macbeth. This was, he remarked wryly, not the most … Continue reading →

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Shakespearean Territories

Posted on March 7, 2012 by stuartelden

What begun as a distraction, and became an obsession, is now looking increasingly like a book project. As regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve been reading and thinking about Shakespeare for a while now. My thinking at the … Continue reading →

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More Coriolanus reviews

Posted on March 3, 2012 by stuartelden

Joe Glenton in Counterfire Monika Bartyzel in The Atlantic Dana Stevens in Slate Richard Corliss in Time Stephen Greenblatt in New York Review of Books (requires subscription) and mine in Berfrois

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The Geopolitics of King Lear – discussion

Posted on February 28, 2012 by stuartelden

Here is the audio file of the discussion following my presentation to the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. It took a bit of work to clean up the recording and balance the volume levels a little better. The recording of the lecture itself … Continue reading →

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Steve Mentz – A Poetics of Nothing

Posted on February 26, 2012 by stuartelden

Steve Mentz, author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, is turning to the question of air: ‘A Poetics of Nothing: Air in the Early Modern Imagination’. March 2nd, 2pm, CUNY Graduate Center. Details here.

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Anachronic Shakespeare

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

The Anachronic Shakespeare conference was excellent – a really interesting set of papers, engagingly delivered and with some really good discussion. John Archer gave a talk on sonnets 50 and 51 on the relation between human and animal, which he … Continue reading →

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The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth – audio

Posted on February 25, 2012 by stuartelden

This is the audio recording of my lecture at the Anachronic Shakespeare conference. The accompanying Powerpoint slides are here. Thanks to Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz for the introduction. There was a good, challenging but helpful, discussion afterwards. The recording for that didn’t … Continue reading →

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New York talks

Posted on February 22, 2012 by stuartelden

Off to New York, probably my favourite city. Three talks over the next few days… 24-25 February 2012 – “The Geopolitics of King Lear: Territory, Land, Earth”, Anachronic Shakespeare conference, Poetics and Theory program, New York University 27 February 2012 … Continue reading →

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Outside Territory

Posted on February 22, 2012 by stuartelden

This is the talk I’ll be giving at the ‘Extraterritoriality’ conference of the Exterritory project – Paris, May 2nd. This talk seeks to explore what it means to be outside territory. It does so in three registers. First, it discusses … Continue reading →

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